Bereavement Program Coordinator

This position supports multiple hospital locations and requires regular travel throughout the Corewell Health East region. The Bereavement Program Coordinator will spend time onsite building partnerships with clinical teams, providing education, and ensuring consistent bereavement support services across the health system. Candidates should be comfortable working in a highly visible role that combines onsite presence, relationship-building, and regional travel.

Help families find comfort, compassion, and support when they need it most. As a Bereavement Program Coordinator, you will play a vital role in leading and advancing bereavement services for families experiencing perinatal, infant, and pediatric loss. This unique position combines compassionate family support, program leadership, education, community partnership, and clinical collaboration to ensure every family receives meaningful, family-centered care during some of life's most difficult moments. Working across our hospitals and alongside multidisciplinary care teams, you will champion best practices, build relationships, provide education, coordinate critical resources, and help shape a bereavement program that honors the needs of grieving families while supporting the caregivers who serve them.

Job Summary

A Bereavement Program Coordinator is a professional who demonstrates empathy and caring for patients and families experiencing perinatal, neonatal, or pediatric death and provides supportive care for the professional caregivers involved with their care. The Coordinator functions as a practitioner, educator and consultant to staff, patients and the community related to the delivery of care to grieving families.

Essential Functions

• Clinical: 
  • Provide expert support to bereaved families in a family-centered care environment
  • Lead the monitoring, oversight and record keeping of all deaths occurring at all Corewell Health (CH) service sites
  • Assist in aggregate case data collection, analysis and reporting
  • Serve as core training faculty for CH system staff 
  • Contribute to strategic development, assessment and evaluation of high-quality bereavement standards, practices and procedures throughout all CH service sites
• Organizational:
  • Assist in the review, revision, updating and development of bereavement policies for CH 
  • Maintain organization of the bereavement program structure and continue to advance the program to meet ongoing needs of the population served
  • Supervise bereavement supply organization in all units across CH that work with bereaved families
• Administration:
  • Lead the corporate Perinatal, Infant & Pediatric Bereavement Committee (PIPB) and provide advice and counsel to the members on strategic planning and development of bereavement services at CH
  • Manage the program budget, ordering of supplies, application for CMN funding, and management of donations from sources in the community 
  • Coordinate with pathology departments and outside funeral services regarding proper processes for respectful disposition of remains and meeting state requirements in accordance with CH policies
  • Address QA issues related to bereavement service concerns/errors to optimize best practices and family centered care
• Education:
  • Organize and participate in ongoing educational offerings for Corewell Health staff, faculty, and trainees 
  • Serve as professional bereavement resource for administration, clinical and research leadership, and identified community outreach
  • Serve as the representative of the bereavement program for public relations and community events
• Research:
  • Conduct ongoing evaluation and research on quality metrics for bereavement services throughout the hospital system
  • Share service as bereavement coordinator to the corporate IRB. Mandatory IRB training is required

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in health-related, social work or spiritual care field
• 2 years of relevant experience working with bereaved families in a health care setting

Preferred

• MDiv, MSN, MSW, MA or equivalent degree in a field relevant to bereavement/Thanatology. BA/BSN with extensive bereavement coordination experience also will be considered

About Corewell Health

As a team member at Corewell Health, you will play an essential role in delivering personalized health care to our patients, members and our communities. We are committed to cultivating and investing in YOU. Our top-notch teams are comprised of collaborators, leaders and innovators that continue to build on one shared mission statement - to improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope. Join a nationally recognized health system with an ambitious vision of continued advancement and excellence.

How Corewell Health cares for you

• Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health, and work/life balance goals. Learn more here.
• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv
• Discounts directory with deals on the things that matter to you, like restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more!
• Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance
• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings
• Eligibility for benefits is determined by employment type and status

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